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Gallery + Critique
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3D Still + Animation
Abstract Pictures from a Newbie
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26 May 2007Hi All. This is my first post on this forum so please be kind
I thought I'd post some of my 3D stills - I welcome any and all feedback. all of this stuff has been modelled, textured and lit by me in Maya, mostly rendered with mental ray. Most of the stills stuff I make is a bit abstract!
This first one was inspired by some pencils I got in a Christmas cracker one year, and I thought it might make a good render:
Next is an experiment in caustics:
A bit of zen, done with final gather:
These next two were lit entirely using a HDRI sphere of my living room. The coins one, while I'm pleased with it, has some odd shadow artifacts that I couldn't tweak away in Maya, so was treated to a bit of Photoshop post:
Finally, something proper abstract, made using a simple occlusion render of blocks generated by a little MEL script I wrote a couple of weeks back:
As I'm a self taught amateur I hope these are good enough to post on this forum! Admins feel free to delete the post if you feel otherwise.
I hope you like them, Christian. -
raytracer 45 posts27 May 2007Nice work on the glass and coins. Very photorealistic. Did you use caustics on the glass blocks? Whats the render time? -
28 May 2007OK these are really nice test
but the two pence one is almost perfect, put more bump or displacement on your coins(I would use MTD) and that image would be amazing. -
28 May 2007Hi Raytracer - thanks. oddly the caustic effects happened without caustics turned on. There are no physical lights in the glass blocks scene (or the coins), just a HDRI sphere I took in my living room. I can only guess that mental ray takes care of the caustic effects when image based illumination is switched on.
As for render times... pass! I rendered these some time ago so don't remember. The glass blocks didn't take particularly long though (the blue crystal took the longest, then the coins).
Hi ar Lutik - thanks for the comment. The coins were bump mapped - I don't think my PC would have enjoyed displacing the geometry too much, but I may return to the scene one day and see what happens.
C -
07 Jun 2007keep it up! self-taught is the name of the game! i'm learning maya myself right now, though in a school. i taught myself 3ds max tho!
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